Isaiah 64:9

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“Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!”

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BSBPD

“Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“Be not wroth very sore, O Jehovah, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, look, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“Be not wroth, O Jehovah, very sore, Nor for ever remember iniquity, Lo, look attentively, we beseech Thee, Thy people <FI>are<Fi> we all.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 64:9 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Leviticus 26:31I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.
  2. 2 Kings 25:9He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.
  3. Psalms 6:1O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
  4. Psalms 38:1O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
  5. Psalms 74:1Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
  6. Psalms 79:5How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
  7. Psalms 79:7for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.
  8. Psalms 79:13Then we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; from generation to generation we will declare Your praise.
  9. Psalms 119:94I am Yours; save me, for I have sought Your precepts.
  10. Isaiah 43:25I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
  11. Isaiah 57:17I was enraged by his sinful greed, so I struck him and hid My face in anger; yet he kept turning back to the desires of his heart.
  12. Isaiah 60:10Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Although I struck you in anger, yet in favor I will show you mercy.
  13. Isaiah 63:18For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.
  14. Isaiah 63:19We have become like those You never ruled, like those not called by Your name.
  15. Jeremiah 3:12Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever.
  16. Jeremiah 10:24Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice— not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.
  17. Lamentations 2:7The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.
  18. Lamentations 5:18because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.
  19. Lamentations 5:20Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
  20. Micah 7:18Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
  21. Habakkuk 3:2O LORD, I have heard the report of You; I stand in awe, O LORD, of Your deeds. Revive them in these years; make them known in these years. In Your wrath, remember mercy!
  22. Malachi 1:4Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people with whom the LORD is indignant forever.
  23. 2 Peter 2:17These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.
  24. Revelation 20:10And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown. There they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

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